http://www.kan-culture.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:05:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I experimented with Phoenix a bit. I can't give it a deep review, since I'm not an expert in image editing. However, it certainly does a lot of the things I've done when poking around in Photoshop: It has rich tools for selected image elements, layering items you're working ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/09/04/flash-apps-are-taking-over-phoenix-is-the-latest/ One thing iPhone and iPod Touch users have been enjoying over the past year has been a finger optimized version of YouTube that pulls in videos on demand. However, users of older video-enabled iPods have been left to fend for themselves using a bevy of services to pull down videos from popular ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/29/tooble-bridges-the-youtube-to-itunes-to-ipod-divid/ But there were speeches aplenty, of course. Biden gave the climactic address of Wednesday evening in Denver, laying into the Republicans and their presumptive nominee, John McCain, after which Obama made an unscheduled appearance on stage, offering a few words in advance of his speech Thursday night. Meanwhile, word began to ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/video-democratic-convention-day-3-recap/ As we reported on Friday, Johnson, who heads up Microsoft's Platforms & Services division, detailed how a combination with Yahoo would have a tonic impact: Online advertising customers would gain a viable alternative to Google, while Microsoft would carve out a bigger piece of a nearly $80 billion market. (Credit: IBM) ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/yahoo-now-mirrors-lotus-then/ A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has been chosen to run the new National Cyber Security Center, an agency charged with coordinating efforts to protect the federal government's computer networks from cyberattacks, according to published reports. Rod Beckström, 47, is expected to be appointed to the post Thursday and report directly to ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/white-house-picks-tech-entrepreneur-for-security-p/ Now they each have full reviews on the site. The NEC MultiSync EA221MW and the Dell P2210. Read them now, and remember, monitors are people too. Electronic people. No, I don't mean 22-inch rims. I mean monitors, silly. Why the heck would I be talking about 22-inch rims on Crave? ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/a-tale-of-two-22s-dell-p2210-nec-multisync-ea221/ (Credit: iriver) The LPlayer comes in white, black, or pink (click the pic for more images). Iriver first introduced its innovative D-Click interface in 2005 with the release of the U10, the boxy predecessor to the Clix line. The company shows no signs of abandoning the system, which is used to full ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/iriver-lplayer-reviewed/ If you're going to wear knife-resistant clothes around town, you may as well look sharp doing it (sorry, no more bad puns for the whole rest of this blog). Nihon Uni, a Japanese uniform manufacturer, has created a T-shirt that promises to provide at least some stab protection. The ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/slash-resistant-t-shirt-keeps-knives-at-bay/ First, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington wrote on Tuesday that a source told him that a Bebo acquisition was "definitely happening." The company was in the process of negotiating a $1 billion sale, he said, but didn't know who the buyer was. Arrington speculated it could be Google, considering that Bebo's user ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/plaxo-bebo-acquisition-rumors-run-amok-on-the-web/ The company is preparing to do a soft launch of the new, cleaner look to around 1,000 customers before deciding on a formal rollout plan, CEO Tony Hsieh said. One challenge will be convincing customers who are happy to buy shoes from Zappos that they should also turn to the ... http://www.kan-culture.com/index.php/2010/08/24/new-zappos-shoes-and-gadgets-to-boot/